Dorothy Forster: A Novel, Volume 2Chatto and Windus, 1884 - 312 pages |
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Page 58 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Page 131 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever : but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Page 57 - Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
Page 45 - THERE was a lady of the North Country, Lay the bent to the bonny broom And she had lovely daughters three. Fa la la la, fa la la la ra re 2 There was a knight of noble worth Which also lived in the North.
Page 30 - Charmante Gabrielle, Percé de mille dards, Quand la gloire m'appelle A la suite de Mars, Cruelle départie ! Malheureux jour! Que ne suis-je sans vie Ou sans amour ! L'amour, sans nulle peine, M'a, par vos doux regards, Comme un grand capitaine Mis sous ses étendards.
Page 70 - Of his self-love to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls hack the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Page 55 - It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tomb* And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to the trembling heart.
Page 82 - THE PAN. Learn, nymphs, from wondrous Daphne's art The uses of the fan. Designed to play a potent part When she undoes a man. As when the silly trout discerns The artificial fly, And rises, bites, and too...
Page 21 - Forster,' when in chap. xiii. the heroine is made to say : — " Had it not been for this munificent gift, which came in pudding-tinie, so to speak, I should have gone to Dilston crying instead of laughing, because my petticoats were so short and my best frock so shabby.
Page 35 - ... stove, it is a sure sign of death. When you hear mysterious raps which cannot be accounted for, it is a sign that the fairies are at work for you. Ghostly tappings are said to be warnings of impending evil. A ghostly and shadowy hearse is often heard in the winter nights, rolling slowly and softly up and down the roads, till it comes to the house where a death is going to happen. The hearer of footsteps in the hall or on the stair, when there is nobody there, may be sure that a spirit has come...